Top 10 Catchiest Songs from Classic Broadway Musicals

They're the catchiest songs ever to grace Broadway. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re looking at the most memorable and hummable tunes from Broadway musicals that premiered before 1980. Our countdown includes "Annie," "The Music Man," "The Wiz," and more! Did any of our picks have YOU singing along? Let us know in the comments!

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[shellywernette]

Singing in the Rain definitely deserves a spot on this list.

[nyneeveanya]

Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Impossible Dream, Camelot, White Christmas, Jesus Christ Superstar, Memory. So many wonderful songs from so many wonderful musicals that you can’t list them all.

[jsbach]

"Consider Yourself" from Oliver! totally should have made the list

[missamericana.]

I love "The Music Man" so much!

[mikeywid]

This is a rabbit hole you could go down for days. I love it!

[trinaq]

Rogers and Hammerstein had the best musicals of all time, with The Sound of Music and Oklahoma being my favourites.

[Apledore]

My husband watched Music Man for the first time last night. (I watched it literally hundreds of times growing up). After Rock Island, he dryly commented that he hadn't been expecting rap. I told him to just wait. 😉

[teresacartwright]

Robert Preston was the definitive Harold Hill in The Music Man. One of my all-time favourite movies (esp. the song "Til There Was You"). For me, the best song in The Sound of Music is "Climb Every Mountain" and "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel definitely should be on the list.

[qkgijhg]

Okay, so it isn't up-tempo. But the single most revered song from any musical, ever, has to be "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from the Wizard of Oz. Even people who don't like to sing and don't watch musicals remember this song. Doesn't that make it catchy?

[charlottehardy]

Think that “anything you can do” from Annie get your gun deserved a spot on this list.

[dztnwzj]

Your remark about Eliza Doolittle realizing that she's falling in love ("I Could Have Danced All Night") strikes an extremely sour note in the face of Lerner & Loewe's declaration that they stayed true to the spirit of "Pygmalion" by achieving the impossible: writing a hit broadway musical without a single love song in it. "Danced All Night" was from the euphoria of passing herself off as an aristocrat, not "love."

[TheAislynnRose]

I was lucky that my parents loved musicals and so had thè original albums to most of these. When I got my first record player, I had only 1 album to start, so I would play my parents albums. I know every song to West Side story and bc I had a pair of castinets would play along with "I like to be in America" while I was singing. Lol I was a dancer too since 3 years old, so would dance it out. Flower Drum Song, A Hundred Million Miracles and I'm A Girl. Gypsy's Let Me Entertain You and Gypsy Roses Turn. Oklahoma I actually auditioned in High School with I Cain't Say No, which I knew from heart from the albums. Music Man I knew the double Talk by heart, Out of my Dreams and Pick-a-Little Talk-a-Little I could go on and on...lol

[dianelitman]

Trouble, my favorite. Robert Preston was perfect and so was everyone else in the cast!!!

[ellynmacgregor]

I happened to listen the other day to "If My Friends Could See Me Now" from Sweet Charity. If that's not catchy (especially when sung and danced by the one and only Gwen Verdon), I don't know what is. Also, I agree with another poster who cited two songs shown at the beginning that didn't even make it into the honorable mentions: the title track from *Oklahoma!*, and "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" from *Guys and Dolls*.

[ILJ]

Nothing? NOTHING???!?!?! Nothing from Oliver!? Not even a mention? So many songs to choose. Food Glorious Food, Oliver, Pick A Pocket, Consider Yourself, Reviewing The Situation, Who Will Buy, Ooom-Pah-Pah??? Sakes man, you dropped the ball here.

[mariasmith]

I love all the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals! The Sound of Music is my absolute favourite tho❤❤

[oliverbrownlow]

"Turkey Lurkey Time" is a bizarre choice from the score of a show *(Promises, Promises)* that included the very catchy hit, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again." Even Richard Rodgers praised it.

[nahkohese]

Okay, I agree with most of your list (maybe not the order), But Chicago being number 1? I've seen it and none of the songs stuck in my head. There were so many better choices. Guys & Dolls, Oklahoma, Man of la Mancha, Camelot, even The Rocky Horror Show (okay, so that one never actually made Broadway, the first time around, but it was on London's version of it before they turned it into The Rocky Horror Picture Show)

[TheAdventurer]

Preston will always be the definitive Harold Hill.

[seanhorace]

I can think of a few others you missed:
.Comedy Tonight from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
.Simon Zelestes from Jesus Christ Superstar
.Buenas Aires from Evita
.Pharaoh’s Song from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat